Friday, September 27, 2013

A Cunning Plan

"Hey, America, this is the NSA, remember that time we listened in on you as you called that 900 number and used your passwords to that porn site you like? Yeah, good times right? Remember how we're pals?"

The day before he is to begin a series of public hearings on Capitol Hill, [Director of the NSA General Keith] Alexander said in a speech at the National Press Club: “We need your help.
“The American people have to weigh in and help us get the tools we need to defend this country,” Alexander said.

Hey, maybe a new control room that looks more like Joss Wheden's Enterprise instead of Gene Roddenberry's will do the trick?
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

5 comments:

If Alexander really wanted to defend this country--being that the country is really its system of governance (the Constitution) and its people (whose rights are explicated in that Constitution), he'd go before Congress and request the dissolution of the NSA as a danger and a threat to the people's freedom and security.

And yet, Alexander is here asking for the American people to endorse and participate in their own tyrannization. You gotta be fuckin' kidding me.